Bert Conings

9.1k citations

44 papers · 6.7k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Polymers and Plastics top 0.5%
- Conducting polymers and applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.5%
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research

Papers in ⓘ

Polymers and Plastics 15
- Conducting polymers and applications 14
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 39
- Perovskite Materials and Applications 25
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 13
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films 11
- Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research 4

Co-authors: Aslihan Babayigit (13 shared papers)H.‐G. Boyen (31 shared papers)Anitha Ethirajan (4 shared papers)Jean Manca (19 shared papers)Jan D’Haen (19 shared papers)Marc Müller (2 shared papers)Nicolas Gauquelin (4 shared papers)Johan Verbeeck (4 shared papers)
Journals: Advanced Materials (4 papers)ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (3 papers)Applied Physics Letters (3 papers)Chemistry of Materials (2 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium Netherlands Germany

In The Last Decade

Bert Conings

44 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Band Gap Tuning via Lattice Contraction and Octahedral Tilting in Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics 2017 · 711 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2016 Scientific Reports
2016 Nature Materials
2015 Advanced Energy Materials
2013 Advanced Materials

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1	Intrinsic Thermal Instability of Methylammonium Lead Trihalide Perovskite Advanced Energy Materials ·Bert Conings, Jeroen Drijkoningen, Nicolas Gauquelin, Aslihan Babayigit, Jan D’Haen, Lien D’Olieslaeger, Anitha Ethirajan, Johan Verbeeck, Jean Manca, Edoardo Mosconi, Filippo De Angelis, H.‐G. Boyen Hit paper breakdown →	2015	1949
2	Toxicity of organometal halide perovskite solar cells Nature Materials ·Aslihan Babayigit, Anitha Ethirajan, Marc Müller, Bert Conings Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1229
3	Band Gap Tuning via Lattice Contraction and Octahedral Tilting in Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Rohit Prasanna, Aryeh Gold‐Parker, Tomas Leijtens, Bert Conings, Aslihan Babayigit, H.‐G. Boyen, Michael F. Toney, Michael D. McGehee Hit paper breakdown →	2017	711
4	Perovskite‐Based Hybrid Solar Cells Exceeding 10% Efficiency with High Reproducibility Using a Thin Film Sandwich Approach Advanced Materials ·Bert Conings, Linny Baeten, Christopher De Dobbelaere, Jan D’Haen, Jean Manca, H.‐G. Boyen Hit paper breakdown →	2013	636
5	Assessing the toxicity of Pb- and Sn-based perovskite solar cells in model organism Danio rerio Scientific Reports ·Aslihan Babayigit, Dinh Duy Thanh, Anitha Ethirajan, Jean Manca, Marc Müller, H.‐G. Boyen, Bert Conings Hit paper breakdown →	2016	485
6	Effect of temperature on the morphological and photovoltaic stability of bulk heterojunction polymer:fullerene solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells ·Sabine Bertho, G. Janssen, Thomas J. Cleij, Bert Conings, Wouter Moons, Abay Gadisa, Jan D’Haen, E. Goovaerts, Laurence Lutsen, Jean Manca, Dirk Vanderzande	2008	240
7	An electron beam evaporated TiO₂layer for high efficiency planar perovskite solar cells on flexible polyethylene terephthalate substrates Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Weiming Qiu, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Robert Gehlhaar, Vladimir Smirnov, H.‐G. Boyen, Jeffrey G. Tait, Bert Conings, Weimin Zhang, Christian B. Nielsen, Iain McCulloch, Ludo Froyen, Paul Heremans, David Cheyns	2015	129
8	An easy-to-fabricate low-temperature TiO2 electron collection layer for high efficiency planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells APL Materials ·Bert Conings, Linny Baeten, Tom Jacobs, R. Dera, Jan D’Haen, Jean Manca, H.‐G. Boyen	2014	107
9	A Universal Deposition Protocol for Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells with High Efficiency Based on Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Families Advanced Materials ·Bert Conings, Aslihan Babayigit, Matthew T. Klug, Sai Bai, Nicolas Gauquelin, Nobuya Sakai, Jacob Tse‐Wei Wang, Johan Verbeeck, H.‐G. Boyen, Henry J. Snaith	2016	103
10	Towards Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Fully Polymer Infiltrated ZnO Nanorod Arrays Advanced Materials ·Linny Baeten, Bert Conings, H.‐G. Boyen, Jan D’Haen, An Hardy, M. D’Olieslaeger, Jean Manca, Marlies K. Van Bael	2011	98
11	Modeling the temperature induced degradation kinetics of the short circuit current in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells Applied Physics Letters ·Bert Conings, Sabine Bertho, Koen Vandewal, Alessia Senes, Jan D’Haen, Jean Manca, René A. J. Janssen	2010	82
12	Gas Quenching for Perovskite Thin Film Deposition Joule ·Aslihan Babayigit, Jan D’Haen, H.‐G. Boyen, Bert Conings	2018	78
13	Environment versus sustainable energy: The case of lead halide perovskite-based solar cells MRS Energy & Sustainability ·Aslihan Babayigit, H.‐G. Boyen, Bert Conings	2018	73
14	Thermal Stability of Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2′-phenylethoxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MPE-PPV):Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Macromolecules ·Joke Vandenbergh, Bert Conings, Sabine Bertho, Jurgen Kesters, Donato Spoltore, Serkan Esiner, Jun Zhao, Guy Van Assche, Martijn M. Wienk, Wouter Maes, Laurence Lutsen, Bruno Van Mele, René A. J. Janssen, Jean Manca, Dirk Vanderzande	2011	59
15	The impact of precursor water content on solution-processed organometal halide perovskite films and solar cells Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Bert Conings, Aslihan Babayigit, Tim Vangerven, Jan D’Haen, Jean Manca, H.‐G. Boyen	2015	56
16	A Molecular Toolkit for the Functionalization of Titanium‐Based Biomaterials That Selectively Control Integrin‐Mediated Cell Adhesion Chemistry - A European Journal ·Florian Rechenmacher, Stefanie Neubauer, Carlos Mas‐Moruno, Petra M. Dorfner, Julien Polleux, Judith Guasch, Bert Conings, H.‐G. Boyen, Alexander Bochen, Tariq R. Sobahi, Rainer Burgkart, Joachim P. Spatz, Reinhard Fässler, Horst Kessler	2013	53
17	Fire Safety of Lead Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics ACS Energy Letters ·Bert Conings, Aslihan Babayigit, H.‐G. Boyen	2019	48
18	Influence of Interface Morphology onto the Photovoltaic Properties of Nanopatterned ZnO/Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Hybrid Solar Cells. An Impedance Spectroscopy Study The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Bert Conings, Linny Baeten, H.‐G. Boyen, Donato Spoltore, Jan D’Haen, Lars Grieten, Patrick Wagner, Marlies K. Van Bael, Jean Manca	2011	44
19	Structure–Property Relations of Methylamine Vapor Treated Hybrid Perovskite CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Films and Solar Cells ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Bert Conings, Simon Bretschneider, Aslihan Babayigit, Nicolas Gauquelin, Ilaria Cardinaletti, Jean Manca, Johan Verbeeck, Henry J. Snaith, H.‐G. Boyen	2017	44
20	Lead-Halide Perovskites Meet Donor–Acceptor Charge-Transfer Complexes Chemistry of Materials ·Nadège Marchal, Wouter Van Gompel, María C. Gélvez‐Rueda, Koen Vandewal, Kristof Van Hecke, H.‐G. Boyen, Bert Conings, Roald Herckens, Sudeep Maheshwari, Laurence Lutsen, Claudio Quarti, Ferdinand C. Grozema, Dirk Vanderzande, David Beljonne	2019	43

About Bert Conings

Bert Conings is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Immunology and Allergy and Organic Chemistry, having authored 44 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (25 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (13 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (12 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (11 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (5 papers), ZnO doping and properties (5 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (2.4k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (6.3k citations), Materials Chemistry (4.3k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (402 citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (263 citations). Bert Conings has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Aslihan Babayigit, H.‐G. Boyen, Anitha Ethirajan, Jean Manca, Jan D’Haen, Marc Müller, Nicolas Gauquelin, Johan Verbeeck, Jeroen Drijkoningen and Edoardo Mosconi. Their work appears in journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Applied Physics Letters, Chemistry of Materials and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

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